Cocktail Pathos

It was a Sunday morning at Quiero Café Bar, day off for most people but when you are a bartender you normally don’t have time to rest. So I decided to try on new recipes and why not make one with beer.

The bar of Quiero café gave me lots of choices and among them I decide to use a Red Ale. The first think that came to my mind was passion. Red, fiery and spicy that’s what I had in my mind.

I choose rose syrup and puree of passion fruit by *MONIN. In order to balance the taste I put some lemon juice flavored with cinnamon, but I wanted more alcohol. I tried ouzo but it didn’t work out as it was covering all the flavors, then I tried tsipouro but again it didn’t gave me what I wanted, so I tried mastiha. It was exactly what I needed. Below you can read the recipe with all the basic steps to make it yourselves.

Cocktail Pathos

60ml mastiha liqueur

20ml rose syrup by MONIN

30ml passion fruit puree by MONIN

20ml lemon juice flavored with cinnamon

Top up with Red Ale (add as you wish)

In a Boston shaker we add all the ingredients together apart from the beer and we shake them hard.

Strain in old fashion glass with ice and fill with beer

Add the garnish, a lime or passion fruit cup put inside a 151 proof rum, for the most adventurous who will pitch in the turn on to feel the flame of passion and put a stick of cinnamon because it is nice!